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To the Editor: In his commentary on the American auto industry of recent decades, Ben Stein is on target in saying that Detroit often failed to build cars that people wanted to buy (''The Dream That Once Was Detroit,'' Everybody's Business, May...

June 3, 2007, Sunday

To the Editor: Re ''Packing for the Ineffable'' (Op-Ed, April 11): Valerie Seiling Jacobs's heart-rending reflection on the packing and departure of her stepson for a tour in Iraq was at once rich in the details of packing rites and expansive...

To the Editor: In Jacob Heilbrunn's review of books about the Hungarian uprising of 1956 (Oct. 29), the point was made, and correctly so, that Radio Free Europe, sponsored by the C.I.A., encouraged and incited the Hungarian freedom fighters and...

To the Editor: Re ''From Budapest to Baghdad: In a Long-Ago Revolution, Echoes for Today'' (Week in Review, Oct. 8): Fifty years ago, as a foreign affairs analyst writing bylined columns for distribution by the United States Information...

October 15, 2006, Sunday

To the Editor: Re ''Suffering Effects of 50's A-Bomb Tests'' (news article, Sept. 5): There is no question that the government played fast and loose with the health of its citizens when it conducted in-air tests of atomic weapons over the...

September 12, 2004, Sunday

To the Editor: Spectacular though they are, the pictures in ''Through the Lens'' are no match for what I saw unfold over the Nevada desert in 1952. I was one of several journalists who witnessed the test, along with hundreds of troops...

October 28, 2003, Tuesday

To the Editor: Maureen Dowd's Oct. 12 column about the importance of father-son talks, as between George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, might have carried the theme further. Missing from her references to Bush familial chats was any mention of...

October 14, 2003, Tuesday

To the Editor: Abraham Lincoln, Adlai Stevenson, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole. What did each have that today's presidential candidates lack in such great abundance? A sense of humor, springing from the gut, not a 3-by-5-inch...

May 21, 2000, Sunday

To the Editor: Rick Marin's Sept. 12 column on the partygiver Liz Cohen, ''The Hostess With the Most (Best Friends),'' contained a word-combo that Walter Winchell, Mr. Marin's decades-removed predecessor as chronicler of the Manhattan social and...